Wednesday, January 03, 2007

back to the garden

Looking Down

Nesting Instinct

From my latest review:

Taking a look around "Garden: Delights and Detritus" - a show of artist's books, drawings and mixed-media prints by Ithaca College professor Susan Weisend - one is immediately struck by their visual eclecticism. Weisend's work uses a wide spectrum of techniques and materials, typically combining several to create a single image. Similarly, she arranges, layers and re-uses different motifs and styles in a collage-like manner, giving her seemingly timeless natural subjects a distinctly contemporary feel.